Comoros hit by fuel-price protests as costs spike amid global tensions; small island nation in the Indian Ocean with Moroni as capital.
A shipwreck near Djibouti on March 24 resulted in at least nine deaths and 45 missing. The vessel, carrying over 300 migrants from Africa, sank during a perilous crossing of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This marks the first major incident this year, continuing a pattern of deadly migration tragedies in the region.